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This document provides examples and exercises on calculating heat transfer via internal forced convection and free convection. Four examples are worked through involving calculating heat transfer rates for air flowing through tubes, from heated plates to air, and from cylinders to air. Four exercises are then presented for students to work through involving similar heat transfer rate calculations for tubes, plates, and pipes in various orientations and conditions.

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Tutorial 5

This document provides examples and exercises on calculating heat transfer via internal forced convection and free convection. Four examples are worked through involving calculating heat transfer rates for air flowing through tubes, from heated plates to air, and from cylinders to air. Four exercises are then presented for students to work through involving similar heat transfer rate calculations for tubes, plates, and pipes in various orientations and conditions.

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Subject: Heat Transfer Tutorial (5) Unit – 3: Convection

Internal Forced Convection and Free Convection

Examples (solved by the lecturer):


Q1) Air at 2 atm and 200℃ is heated as it flows through a tube with a diameter of 1 in (2.54
cm) at a velocity of 10 m/s. Calculate the heat transfer per unit length of tube if a constant-
heat-flux condition is maintained at the wall and the wall temperature is 20℃ above the air
temperature, all along the length of the tube. {Q = 101 W/m}

Q2) A 1-m-square vertical plate is heated to 300℃ and placed in room air at 25℃. Calculate
the heat loss from one side of the plate. {Q = 1637.7 W}

Q3) A vertical cylinder 1.8 m high and 7.5 cm in diameter is maintained at a temperature of
93℃ in an atmospheric environment of 30℃. Calculate the heat lost by free convection from
this cylinder. For this calculation the cylinder may be treated as a vertical flat plate.
{Q = 112 W}

Q4) A horizontal 1.25-cm-OD tube is heated to a surface temperature of 250℃ and exposed
to air at room temperature of 20℃ and 1 atm. What is the free-convection heat transfer per
unit length of tube? {Q = 130 W/m}

Prepared by Eng. Magd Ishfaq


Exercises (must be solved by the students):
Q1) Air at 1 atm and 25℃ is cooled as it flows through a tube with a diameter of 20 cm at a
velocity of 3 m/s. Calculate the heat transfer per unit length of tube if a constant-heat-flux
condition is maintained at the wall and the wall temperature is 15℃ all along the length of
the tube. {Q = 78 W/m}

Q2) A 0.3-m-square vertical plate is maintained at 55℃ and exposed to room air at 1 atm
and 20℃. Calculate the heat lost from both sides of the plate. {Q = 31 W}

Q3) A 30-cm-diameter vertical pipe with 30 cm high is maintained at a constant temperature


of 25℃ and placed in room air at 20℃. Calculate the free-convection heat loss from the
entire pipe. {Q = 3.9 W}

Q4) A horizontal pipe 8.0 cm in diameter is located in a room where atmospheric air is at
25℃. The surface temperature of the pipe is 140℃. Calculate the free-convection heat loss
per meter of pipe. {Q = 228 W/m}

Prepared by Eng. Magd Ishfaq

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